It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Abstract: A crucial task in predictive maintenance is estimating the remaining useful life of physical systems. In the last decade, deep learning has improved considerably upon traditional model-based ...

Rob Williams knows how to pitch Jeff Bezos: You write a press release as if your product has already been built. Bezos reads it and gives a thumbs up or down. Williams went through this process a lot ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a multi-UAV path planning method based on an improved Hummingbird Algorithm (AHA). To address the original AHA’s tendency to become trapped in local optima and its slow ...

Trust-region NG 7,8: Constrains the KL divergence between successive distributions, solving a subproblem to determine step size. Line-search NG 7,8: Performs backtracking along the natural gradient ...